Thursday, May 10, 2018

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Léonicka Valcius recently joined the Transatlantic Agency as assistant
agent. After completing the publishing program at
Centennial College, Léonicka interned at HarperCollins Canada before working at
Scholastic Book Fairs Canada for nearly 4 years as a book buyer and marketer.
She then joined the Online and Digital Sales team at Penguin Random House
Canada where she sold ebooks and audio books. Léonicka is eager to draw from
these experiences to return to her original passion: working with writers.

As the founder of #DiverseCanLit and the Chair of
the Board of the Festival of Literary Diversity, serving readers and writers of
colour has been the core of Léonicka’s career. She brings this same mandate to
her work at Transatlantic. As an Assistant Agent, Léonicka will be working
closely with Samantha Haywood, Stephanie Sinclair and Amy Tompkins with whom
she will be co-agenting new clients.

In Adult and Young Adult fiction, Léonicka likes
fun commercial fiction, romance that ranges from sweet to steamy, otherworldly
fantasy, and sweeping historical fiction. She does not represent mysteries or
thrillers.

In Adult non-fiction, she like narrative nonfiction
that explains complex issues through the lens of a personal story. She is also
seeking books that straddle the self-help/lifestyle line (#selfcare
#liveyourbestlife) and the self-help/business line (#productivityhack
#riseandgrind).

For Middle Grade and younger, she loves humour,
adventure, and make believe. She also enjoys stories about children navigating
their changing relationships with family and friends. She strongly prefers
books with at least one human character.

If you are comfortable,
please include your social and cultural identities in your bio, especially if
you self-identify as a person of color and/or part of another underrepresented
group. If you are submitting a nonfiction proposal, please include information
about your expertise and platform, as well as a detailed table of contents.

If you are submitting a picture book, please
send the complete manuscript.

See
Transatlantic’s full guidelines here. Read about
the other five Transatlantic agents currently seeking authors to represent here.

Paige Sisley

If you’re interested in getting
published, soon or somewhere down the road, don’t miss the How to Get
Published workshop with literary agent Paige Sisley, Saturday, August, 18,
in Collingwood (see here).

For updated listing of How to Get Published workshops, see here
(and scroll down).

And if
you’re interested in Writing for Children or for Young
Adults, Brian Henry will lead a mini-conference withYasemin Uçar, senior
editor at Kids Can Press, children’s author Kira Vermond, and YA author Tanaz
Bhathena, Saturday, Sept 22, in Oakville (see here) and also a Kid Lit workshop
in Sudbury sometime in the fall (details to come).

For updated listings of Writing
for Children & for Young adult workshops and for weekly Kid lit classes,
see here(and
scroll down).

Children's author Kira Vermond

And don't miss: Writing and Revising, Saturday, May 26, in Oakville (see here), How to
Make Yourself Write, Saturday, June 9,
in London (see here)., and Writing Your Life on Saturday, June 23, in Mississauga (see here).

This summer, Brian will lead both Introductory and
Intensive weekly classes:

Brian Henry has been a book editor, writer, and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He teaches creative writing at Ryerson University. He also leads weekly creative writing courses in Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Georgetown and conducts Saturday workshops throughout Ontario. His proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published.